? ? ? ? I have said that the company were all gone; but I ought to have excepted Uriah, whom I don't include in that denomination, and who had never ceased to hover near us. He was close behind me when I went downstairs. He was close beside me, when I walked away from the house, slowly fitting his long skeleton fingers into the still longer fingers of a great Guy Fawkes pair of gloves.
? ? ? ? It was in no disposition for Uriah's company, but in remembrance of the entreaty Agnes had made to me, that I asked him if he would come home to my rooms, and have some coffee.
? ? ? ? 'Oh, really, Master Copperfield,' he rejoined - 'I beg your pardon, Mister Copperfield, but the other comes so natural, I don't like that you should put a constraint upon yourself to ask a numble person like me to your ouse.'
? ? ? ? 'There is no constraint in the case,' said I. 'Will you come?'
? ? ? ? 'I should like to, very much,' replied Uriah, with a writhe.
? ? ? ? 'Well, then, come along!' said I.
? ? ? ? I could not help being rather short with him, but he appeared not to mind it.
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